Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has said that the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was not intended for teenagers’ romantic affairs. The court granted bail to a POCSO accused youth, who ran away with a 14- year-old girl and got married with her in a temple. The youth, who was a minor […]
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has acquitted a man who had been awarded death penalty in the rape and murder of a minor. The high court said that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. While rejecting the reference for affirmation of death sentence and allowing the appeal of Nazil against the […]
Prayagraj: Observing that ‘oral sex’ with a minor does not come under the ‘aggravated sexual assault’ category in the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Allahabad High Court has reduced the jail term of a man convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy from 10 years to seven years. In 2016, an […]
A first information report (FIR) was registered against Akhilanand Rao by the police under IT Act of Indian Penal Code at Kotwali police station in Deoria.
A 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped by four upper-caste men in Hathras on September 14. She died on September 29 at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital during treatment.
